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- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
- If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
- Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
- Kazuo Inamori
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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